Henry+David Thoreau Quotes

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

#Ability #Wealth

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

#Memory #Experience

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

#Friends Or Friendship #Quote of the Day

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

#American Author

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

#American Author #Luck

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

#inspirational #Quote of the Day #Direction

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

#Friends Or Friendship

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent

#Jest

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

#Eccentricity

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

#Poetry And Poets #Mankind

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

#American Author

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

#American Author #Fishing

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

#Fishing

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

#American Author #Belief

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioning ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor

#Ability

All good things are wild, and free.

#Freedom

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

#American Author #Wilderness

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

#Law And Lawyers #Consistency

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

#American Author